Pictures bring us messages = Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa : photographs and histories from the Kainai nation

Brown, Alison K. (Alison Kay) 1971- (Author). Peers, Laura Lynn, 1963- (Added Author).

Summary: "In 1925, Beatrice Blackwood of the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum took thirty-three photographs of Kainai people on the Blood Indian Reserve in Alberta as part of an anthropological project. In 2001, staff from the museum took copies of these photographs back to the Kainai and worked with community members to try to gain a better understanding of their perspectives on the images. 'Pictures Bring Us Messages' is about that process, about why museum professionals and archivists must work with such communities, and about some of the considerations that need to be addressed when doing so."--frontispiece

Record details

ISBN: 0802048919 (pbk.) :
ISBN: 0802090060 (bound) :
ISBN: 9780802048912 (pbk.) :
ISBN: 9780802090065 (bound) :
Physical Description: xvii, 280 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-272) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. The photographs and their contexts : Kainai history -- 2. Anthropological contexts -- 3. Working together -- 4. Reading the photographs -- 5. The past in the present : community conclusions -- 6. Moving forward : institutional implications -- App. 1. Itinerary of Beatrice Blackwood's North American fieldwork, 1924-7 -- App. 2. Beatrice Blackwood's notations on her photographs with Kainai identifications -- App. 3. Protocol agreement -- App. 4. Kainai reflections on Beatrice Blackwood's diary.